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Order and disorder : anthropological perspectives
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- Creator
- [edited by] Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0857450026, 0857451480, 9786612626562, 9781845451981, 1845451988, 9780857450029, 1282626566
- OCLC
- ocn645100737, ocn647933256, ocn148840581
- "Volume developed from a conference held at and funded by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 26 and 27 November 2004"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie -- Order and the evocation of heritage : representing quality in the French biscuit trade / Simon Roberts -- Pride, honour, individual and collective violence : order in a 'lawless' village / Aimar Ventsel -- Order, individualism and responsibility : contrasting dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau / Fernanda Pirie -- Vigilante groups and the state in West Africa / Tilo Grätz -- Imposing new concepts of order in rural Morocco : violence and transnational challenges to local order / Bertram Turner -- Law, ritual and order / Peter Just -- The disorders of an order : state and society in Ottoman and Turkish trabzon / Michael E. Meeker -- Anthropological order and political disorder / Jonathan Spencer